Modern Medical Care

We are fortunate that we live in modern times, unlike our ancestors, who lived in the past. Of course they didn’t realize they lived in the past; they thought they lived in modern times. In their defense, they were pretty stupid. Nowhere is this more evident than in the area of medical care, which in ancient times was very primitive.Q. How primitive was it?A. It was so primitive that the patient questionnaire for office visits (which was inscribed on a stone tablet) consisted of one question:If the patient chiseled “YES” or “NOT SURE,” the standard medical treatment was for the physician to drain the patient’s blood, because in ancient times blood was mistakenly believed to be the leading cause of disease. (We now know that it is actually mucus.) If the patient chiseled “NO,” the physician would still drain the patient’s blood, because in ancient times the physician was also the undertaker.Contrast that primitive scenario with a visit to a modern medical office, where, before you are…